Show some love for... 3D Monster Maze

[stevenhowlett]

Released for the Sinclair ZX81 back in early 1982, running on a 8 bit computer with a tiny 3.5MHz CPU and just 16K of RAM and yet this fantastic game in its day scared the living hoohaw out of me.

 

Possibly the first example of a first person perpective game.

 

[youki]

For the machine , it was a terrific game!

[CatPix]

Wow, impressive, knowing how weak the ZX81 is...

[high voltage]

Released for the Sinclair ZX81 back in early 1982, running on a 8 bit computer with a tiny 3.5MHz CPU and just 16K of RAM and yet this fantastic game in its day scared the living hoohaw out of me.

 

Possibly the first example of a first person perpective game.

 

 

 

Sirius Wayout on A8 was 1982, and in colour.

 

 

One year later on A8 was Sirius Capture the Flag, two player at the same time, also a first.

 

 

Voyager I from Avalon Hill was also 1982 for A8

 

 

 

Escape from the Mindmaster on VCS was in 1982 as well:

 

 

 

 

I'm pretty sure I saw a first person perpective game on Apple 2 in 1981 or earlier.

 

There might have been a 3D crawler on Plato in the 70s, but I haven't searched that.

Edited May 16, 2014 by high voltage

[JamesD]

3D maze games were pretty common in '82
This was on the CoCo in '82:

 

This came out in '80 for the TRS-80:



Ultimately, it goes back to this in 1974:

Edited May 17, 2014 by JamesD

[high voltage]

That's pretty neat for 1974

 

• Maze War, 1974, Steve Colley, Imlac PDS-1

Edited May 18, 2014 by high voltage